Improvement in barrel-hoops



H. WILLARD.

Barrel Hoops.

NO.140,862, V PatentedJu|y15,1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENDERSON WILLARD, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BARREL-HOOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,862, dated Jnly 15, 1 873; application filed April 14, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENDERSON WILLARD, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Barrel-Hoop, of which the following is a full and sufficient specification,

I scallop my hoop as seen in Eigure 1, then bend, interlock, and nail it, with gage-marks a a in line, as indicated in Fig. 2.

The gage-marks a a may be dispensed with.

In manufacturing hoops from plank it is practicable to scallop the plank, then out it into hoops. In this Way several hoops are scalloped at once by a simple operation of machinery.

I claim- As an article of manufacture, a hoop with scallop-lock, substantially as shown and described.

HENDERSON WILLARD.

Witnesses:

EDWARD TAGGART, NERAM A. FLETCHER. 

